Carlos Todd, a 31-year-old Raleigh resident who slipped away from a federal halfway house last summer, has been ordered back to prison. A federal judge on Thursday handed Todd a 15-month sentence after his months on the run ended with his arrest by U.S. Marshals on Feb. 27, 2026. U.S. District Judge Louise W. Flanagan imposed the new term.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina, Todd had been serving the last portion of a previous federal sentence at the South Raleigh Residential Reentry Center since July 8, 2025. Less than two weeks after arriving, he tested positive for marijuana, and the Bureau of Prisons recommended that he be returned to a more secure facility.
On July 30, 2025, officials from Riverside Regional Prison in North Prince George, Virginia, arrived at the reentry center to pick up several people for transfer. Prosecutors say Todd refused to get on the bus and then walked away from the facility without permission, effectively turning a supposedly low-key transfer into a federal escape case.
In the U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina release, U.S. Attorney Ellis Boyle warned that the system depends on people following the rules. "Inmates who abuse this process and escape by leaving without permission will be pursued and prosecuted to the full extent of the law," he said.
United States Marshal Glenn M. McNeill, Jr. credited his team with bringing Todd in quietly, saying deputies "responded quickly, worked collaboratively, and safely apprehended the fugitive without incident." The case, according to the release, grew out of coordination between the U.S. Marshals Service, the Bureau of Prisons, and the South Raleigh Residential Reentry Center.
How the reentry center is supposed to work
The South Raleigh Residential Reentry Center is a contracted facility that provides transitional programming for people finishing federal prison sentences. The goal is to help them line up work, housing, and treatment while they serve the final stretch of their time in a less restrictive setting.
CoreCivic, the private company that operates the center, described the site’s programming and local partnerships in a 2025 Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) audit report, available from CoreCivic.
Case number and where to find documents
The criminal case is listed as No. 5:26-CR-00028-FL. Related filings and docket entries can be found through the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina website and via PACER. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the sentence was announced following Todd’s hearing before Judge Flanagan.
